Because women generally carry their weight in their lower bodies, an apparatus like the balance beam would have been better suited for them. Men, on the other hand, (generally) have greater upper ...

The U.S. women's gymnastics team has among the highest difficulty scores on one of the most difficult gymnastic events: the balance beam ... flips and splits on an apparatus just four inches ...

No medal for Simone Biles on the balance beam this time. The American gymnastics star slipped and fell off the apparatus at the end of her acrobatic series during the beam finals at the 2024 ...

The women’s gymnastics events in Tokyo will wrap up on Tuesday with the balance beam final ... Biles, 24, will be competing in her only apparatus final at these Games, and it’s not clear ...

PARIS — No medal for Simone Biles on the balance beam this time. The American gymnastics star slipped and fell off the apparatus at the end of her acrobatic series during the Paris Games’ beam ...

She scored a 15.33, which on most days is a great score on the challenging apparatus ... lost her balance during a twist and needed to grab the beam to keep from falling off.

But the balance beam, a fickle apparatus only 4 inches wide and raised 4.1 feet off the ground, had other ideas on Monday. On the last day of Olympic women’s artistic gymnastics competition in ...

Italian gymnast Alice D'Amato emerged as the surprise champion on the balance beam at the Paris Olympics on Monday after favorite Simone Biles surprisingly fell off the 10cm wide apparatus during ...